First Church Of Christ Scientist
First Church Of Christ Scientist is a Church Of Christ church at 42 W Park Pl in Newark, DE 19711. It is one of 108 churches in Newark.
The Church of Christ, Scientist began in 1879 when Mary Baker Eddy and her students voted to form “a church without creeds…to commemorate the word and works of our Master [Christ Jesus], which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.”
Serving since 1896
42 W Park Pl, Newark, DE, 19711Service times
- Sunday 10:30am · service
Phone: (302) 456-5808 · Website: https://christiansciencewilmington.org/
First Church Of Christ Scientist is part of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family of churches in The American Church Story. 19 congregations of the Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) family gather across Delaware — 10,488 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Stone-Campbell churches asked American Christians to put down their party names and be simply Christians, and they meant it enough to give up their own. Their plea for one table, and their weekly return to it, is one of the few genuinely American gifts to the church's understanding of itself.
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The community around First Church Of Christ Scientist
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 42.1%
- Social Isolation: 38.9%
- Depression: 28.3%
- Food Insecurity: 23.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 15.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 11.1%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.7–12.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Church Of Christ Scientist
- St Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Great Exchange Church — 0.1 mi away
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship — 0.2 mi away
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark — 0.5 mi away
- Lutheran Campus Ministry — 0.5 mi away
- Newark United Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
- The Potter's House CFM — 0.6 mi away
- Prayer Temple Ministries — 0.7 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint John African Methodist Church — 0.7 mi away
More Restorationist churches nearby
- Redeemed Church - RC, Newark Delaware — 2.5 mi away
- New Life Alliance Church — 2.7 mi away
- Newark Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away
- Church of Christ — 6.3 mi away in Elkton, MD
- Greenbank Church of Christ — 7.9 mi away in Wilmington, DE